Searching for an affordable freelancer/SOHO backup solution? I think I found one on the weekend. I use JungleDisk for offsite storage of *really* important stuff that I would quite literrally die if I lost, but in this day and age of huge media files, the need for vast amounts of reliable, fast, storage is present. [...]
Read moreFollowing some links last week I ended up on jungledisk.com. All of 30 secs later I had the client downloaded and started backing up my hard drive.
What is it ? It’s a collection of clients for the 3 majors (Windows, OS X, Linux) that essentially mount up an S3 storage bucket as a separate volume. [...]
Okay, I’m not one to publicly rant but really, I’ve given up with the performance of MediaTemple’s GridServer implementation. More to the point the marketing and statements simply do not measure up to what actually has happened with this blog at Mediatemple. It’s not high load at all, never been dugg, slashdotted or anything else [...]
Read moreRowan is a Product Development Manager, specialising in architecting, developing and putting web applications into production - in particular Ruby on Rails based apps. He lives in Toronto, Canada but speaks in a funny accent as he's originally from New Zealand. He's been working in the software and web business for over a decade. This blog covers Web Application development and deployment in the real world, dealing with topics from business fundamentals to Ruby on Rails, Merb, PHP, Flex, MySQL, Apache and more.
